Manufacturers have been quietly abandoning the use of toxic ingredients in their products, in response to California’s strict chemical disclosure rules, a new study has found. By promoting ...

For instance, a La Niña climate pattern was observed back in 2023, when California experienced a drought-breaking torrent of rainfall. A new study published in the journal, Climate Dynamics ...

While such breakdowns were once a rare occurrence in Alexandria, these events have surged from approximately one to about 40 per year over the past decades, according to the study, published on ...

The Florez family’s experience exemplifies the findings of a new study that looks at an increasingly important metric in higher education: economic mobility. The California Mobility Index ...

Dave Proffer via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Parts of California’s coastline are sinking, according to a NASA-led study published earlier this year in Science Advances. That’s bad news for sea ...

Crews began clearing roads across Southern California on Friday after an atmospheric river brought heavy rain that triggered rounds of evacuations and closures as it unleashed damaging mudslides ...

In their study, Govorcin and his colleagues instead used satellites to track how thousands of miles of land along the California coast had risen and fallen between 2015 and 2023. Combining radar ...

This is a natural interaction between two native species, Gerraty explains. And while California coyotes might have hunted harbor-seal pups for centuries, this study is the first to empirically ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom requested nearly $40 billion in wildfire recovery aid in a letter to members of Congress on Friday. At least 29 people died as a result of the raging fires in Southern ...

A 2023 study of California wildfires conducted by U.S. Forest Service researchers found that “new fire regimes are increasingly affecting more urban census tracts statewide, meaning greater ...

Editor's note: This page reflects news from Wednesday, Feb. 12. For the latest updates on the atmospheric river in California, read USA TODAY's coverage for Thursday, Feb. 13. SAN DIEGO ...

The shock of this catastrophic loss has been reverberating across Southern California, driving up demand for rental homes and prices in an already unaffordable and competitive housing market.